Alex Burrows tells Ben Kuzma that he'll "surprise" opponents with his effectiveness in the face-off dot. About that, I have to say, it would completely and utterly shcok me if he wins 45% of the draws he takes as a full time centre. For what it's worth Burrows is 2 out of 7 on face-offs so far this season, and has won 77 of 195 (or a shade under 40%) over the past six seasons according to NHL.com. [The White Towel]

Our buddies over at The Legion of Blog have debuted "LoBTV" which features them mostly haggling off camera with Rogers Arena security and ultimately interviewing Canucks fans at Saturday night's home-opener against the Anaheim "don't call me Mighty" Ducks. The video is well worth your time. I'm not sure if it's Trevor Linden good necessarily (what is, really?), but these two certainly have more camera presence in their cuticles than I'll ever have. [Legion of Blog]

Brad Ziemer reports on the issue between Air Canada - who installed some peasant class seating on their charter plains in order to make some money while the seven Canadian NHL teams were locked out this fall - and the Canucks, who don't want their players to have to sit in economy class seats. I'm not an expert on these things, but it seems to me that Air Canada made a short-sighted, penny pinching move here and may lose a high-profile client over it. [Vancouver Sun]

Bad news for those of us with, you know, any capacity for human empathy: Ben Eager has been diagnosed with a concusion, the result of getting pummeled on Sunday night by Canucks brawler Zack Kassian. Per Gene Principe:

Thomas Drance lives in Toronto, eats spicy food and writes about hockey. He is the editor in chief of the Nation Network (a.k.a Overlord), and an opinionated blowhard to boot. You can follow him on twitter @thomasdrance.